Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Swindon Extension) Act 1928

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Citation1928 c. lxi
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5.] Ministry of Health [Ch. lxi.]
Provisional Order Confirmation (Swindon
Extension) Act, 1928.
CHAPTER lxi.
An Act to coniirm a Provisional Order of the
A.D.
1928.
Minister of Health relating to Swindon.
[3rd August 1928.]
W
HEREAS the Minister of Health has made the
Provisional Order set forth in the schedule hereto
under the provisions of the Local Government Act
51 &
52 Vict.
1888 : c. 41.
And whereas it is requisite that the said Order
should be confirmed by Parliament:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present
Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same
as follows :
1.
The Order set out in the schedule hereto shall Order in
be and the same is hereby confirmed and all the sc^^e
provisions thereof shall have full validity and force. confirmed,
2.
This Act may be cited as the Ministry of Health Short title.
Provisional Order Confirmation (Swindon Extension)
Act 1928.
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[Ch. lxi.] Ministry of Health [18 & 19
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5.]
Provisional Order Confirmation (Swindon
Extension) Act, 1928,
SCHEDULE.
BOROUGH OF SWINDON.
Swindon Provisional Order made in pursuance of the Local
Order. Government Act 1888 for the extension of a Borough.
WHEREAS by section 54 of the Local Government Act 1888
the Minister of Health is empowered to make a Provisional
Order for altering the boundary of any borough;
And whereas the existing Borough of Swindon in the
administrative county of Wilts is a borough within the meaning
of the Local Government Act 1888 and the inhabitants are
a body corporate by the name of the mayor aldermen and
burgesses of the Borough of Swindon and act by the council
of the Borough which now consists of the mayor (who is also
an alderman) eleven other aldermen and thirty-six councillors
and the Borough for the election of councillors is divided into
six wards;
And whereas the Borough has a separate commission of the
peace;
And whereas in pursuance of the Education Act 1921 the
Council of the Borough are the local education authority for
the purposes of elementary education;
And whereas the Borough is coextensive with the Parish of
Swindon and is an urban district under the jurisdiction of the
mayor aldermen and burgesses acting by the Council;
And whereas the four parishes of Chisledon Rodbourne
Cheney Strattbn Saint Margaret and Wroughton in the admini-
strative county of Wilts immediately adjoin the Borough and are
contributory places in the Rural District of Highworth;
And whereas the two parishes of Lydiard Millicent and
Lydiard Tregoze in the administrative county of Wilts imme-
diately adjoin the Borough and are contributory places in the
Rural District of Cricklade and Wootton Bassett :
Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the
powers given to him by sections 54 and 59 of the Local Govern-
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A.D.
1928.
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5.] Ministry of Health [Ch. lxi J
Provisional Order Confirmation {Swindon
Extension) Act, 1928.
ment Act 1888 and of all other powers enabling him in that A.D. 1928.
behalf hereby orders as follows :
Swindon
PAST
I. 0rder-
INTERPRETATION
AND COMMENCEMENT.
1.
In this Order unless the context otherwise requires Definitions,
" Existing " in relation to any area altered by this Order
means existing immediately before the appointed
day;
"The Act of 1888" and "the Act of 1894" mean
respectively the Local Government Act 1888 and
the Local Government Act 1894;
" The added areas " means the added part of Chisledon
the added parts of Lydiard Millicent the added part
of Lydiard Tregoze the added part of Bodbourne
Cheney the added part of Stratton Saint Margaret
and the added part of Wroughton;
" The added part of Chisledon " means that part of the
existing Parish of Chisledon which is coloured green
on the borough maps;
" The added parts of Lydiard Millicent " means those
parts of the existing Parish of Lydiard Millicent
which are coloured grey on the borough maps;
" The added part of Lydiard Tregoze " means that part
of the existing Parish of Lydiard Tregoze which is
coloured blue on the borough maps;
" The added part of Bodbourne Cheney " means that
part of the existing Parish of Bodbourne Cheney
which is coloured yellow on the borough maps;
" The added part of Stratton Saint Margaret " means
that part of the existing Parish of Stratton Saint
Margaret which is coloured purple on the borough
maps;
" The added part of Wroughton " means that part of the
existing Parish of Wroughton which is coloured brown
on the borough maps;
" The appointed day " means the First day of October
Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight;
" The Borough " means the existing Borough of Swindon
as extended by this Order;
" The borough maps " means the duplicate maps marked
" Map of the Borough of Swindon as extended by
the Swindon (Extension) Order 1928 " and sealed
with the official seal of the Minister;
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